Global database check
Screen a candidate or a vendor against sanctions, watchlist, regulator and debarment records, and get matches that have been adjudicated rather than a list of similar names.
Live verification
What a global database check confirms
A global database check runs a name against the public records that mark someone as sanctioned, politically exposed, debarred or under regulatory action. It is a screening check, not an investigation: it returns names that resemble the candidate's, and the work is deciding which of them is the candidate. It is bought for leadership hires, roles with financial authority, cross-border hiring and vendor due diligence.
Whether the name appears on a sanctions list maintained by a government or a multilateral body.
Public office held now or in the past, and close associates, which changes the diligence a regulated employer owes.
Orders, bans and penalties issued by financial and market regulators.
Contractor and supplier debarment by development banks and public bodies.
Credible reporting of fraud, financial crime or regulatory action, read and summarised rather than pasted in.
Every potential hit tested against date of birth, nationality and known identifiers before it is reported.
Sources. Sanctions lists published by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union and the UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation. Debarment and exclusion lists from the World Bank and the other multilateral development banks. Indian regulator records, including SEBI and RBI orders and MCA filings. Public law enforcement notices, politically exposed person data and adverse media. Every list carries its own coverage, and the report names which ones were run for that case.
Four kinds of record, four different weights
Screening goes wrong when these are added up into one score. Each answers a different question and carries a different consequence.
A legal restriction on dealing with a named person or entity. A confirmed match is not a judgement call, it is a compliance event.
Not an allegation. It raises the diligence expected of you rather than ruling the candidate out.
A regulator or a lender has already acted. These are findings of fact from the body that made them.
Reporting, not a record. It is weighed and sourced, and it never stands alone as a finding.
How it works
Four steps. A database check does not need more, and padding one out is how a stepper stops describing what actually happens.
Name, date of birth, nationality and any known aliases. Weak identifiers are what make screening unusable later.
The name is run against the sanctions, politically exposed person, enforcement, debarment and adverse media sources named above.
Each hit is tested against the identifiers. A shared name is closed as not the candidate. A match that holds is written up with its source.
Which lists were run, what came back, and the source record behind anything reported.
Checks that run alongside it
Indian criminal records searched at the courts covering the candidate's address history.
Court record check Directorship and DINEvery company a candidate directs, and the standing of the Director Identification Number behind it.
Directorship check IdentityName, date of birth and photograph matched against Aadhaar, PAN, Voter ID and Driving Licence records.
Identity check